Gloucester Sheriff's food drive collects enough for 11,000 meals

The 2nd annual Gloucester County Sheriff's Office food drive challenge brought in the dough, as well as bread, soup and other canned goods. The annual challenge received food and cash donations equal to 6,793 lbs. of food, enough for approximately 11,000 meals.

The effort was led by Dep. Rob Richmond and Dep. Jake Forehand, who had the idea for the food drive last year, said Sheriff Darrell Warren. The challenge entails county departments seeing which one can collect the most food between Sept. 1 and Sept. 30.

All the food went directly to 11 food pantries in Gloucester, Warren said. The winning team was the Gloucester County Circuit Court Clerk's Office, with the award being a choice of a lunch from one of several restaurants that donated to the cause: Chick-fil-A, Pizza Hut, Subway, Domino's and Papa John's.